Recipes

When you go grocery shopping, your fridge gets filled with fresh vegetables and meats. However, one or two weeks later, the fresh guys start to spoil, which is not good for a salad. This is my fridge cleaning- up recipe (or, in other words, how to make a great meal using leftovers):

Ingredients:

• Leftover vegetables in your fridge, such as napa cabbage, celery, carrots, peppers, onions, broccoli, cauliflower… you name it
• A chicken breast
• Your favorite ingredients, such as frozen vegetables, corn, young corn, water chestnuts, etc
• Flour or cornstarch for coating chicken
• Oil for shallow stir-fry
• Seasonings for chow mein: sugar, soy sauce, teriyaki sauce, oyster sauce
• Bean sprouts and sesame seeds as garnish
• Sweet chili sauce for chicken
• 2 packages of Instant noodles with soup powders (because they are cheap)

Instructions:

1. Cut chicken breast into bite-size pieces.
2. Coat the cut chicken with flour or cornstarch.
3. Shallow-fry the coated chicken.
4. Cut vegetables into bite-sizes pieces while chicken is nearly cooked.
5. Put aside cooked chicken.
6. Stir-fry all the cut vegetables from your hard veggies, such as carrots.
7. When vegetables get withered, add soup powder accompanied by instant noodles.
8. Mix lightly; you will see water from the vegetables come out
9. Keep it on heat to let the water evaporate.
10. Add your favorite ingredients
11. Add seasonings to the chow mein, mix lightly and let the additional water evaporate.
12. Put hot water in a pot and boil instant noodles for 1min (*) and drain.
13. Cool the noodles down and tease them with a chopstick to evaporate the moisture. (**)
14. Remove the pan from the heat and mix with the noodles.
15. Put cooked chicken and all other cooked ingredients on plates.
16. Put bean sprouts and sesame seeds on the noodles, and sweet chili sauce on chicken.
17. Enjoy!

Important!!

(*) DO NOT cook the noodles too long or they become soggy and unappetizing.

(**) After cooking the noodles, aerate them with tongs or chopsticks to avoid sticking or clumping.